The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-20

l. Armstrong post Office, on the Palatka and
st. Augustine railway, isnow supplied from
Palatka instead Of ST. Augustine.
Passenger trains from the North and
steamers going South are now well filled
with travellers, and the tide has set south
ward.
Sheriff William Pickett. of Franklin
county, has rendered TO the Governor his
resignation as Sheriff Reason: Lack of
/ remuneration.
There are two notices out, signed by diff
ferent citizens of Winter Park, calling for a
meeting of citizens for the purpose of incor-
porating the town.
J. B. McIrwin and several others left
Gainesville yesterday for Nicaragua TO
prospect in that country for the raising of
bananas, oranges and other fruits.
| The people OF Hillsboro county will vote
on the liquor question on September 30, and
the temperance people are hard at work,
and meet the opposition face to face.
At Key West business is looking up
There is a good demand for cigars, and
much business is done at the custom house,
frequently $4,000 being taken in during the
day.
Last week Sheriff Pickett attached a raft
of logs lying at Old Woman's Bluff claimed
to be the property of Maj. Robert Ely, of
Mitchell county, Georgia, in behalf of
Capt. Robert Morgan, who lays claim
against Maj Ely in the sum of $500.
Henry Jones, the colored citizen of Palat-
ka Heights, who lost horse, saddle and
bride several days since, has recovered his
property. 1t seems that the horse was ia
ken for short ride, and was found by
Jones the following morning, saddled and
brfdled and on its way home.
AT Kissimmee W. S. Douglas and NJ. J.
Towne have bought the McLaurin saw mill
which they propose TO move to Floradolphia
as the Inauguration of the boom which is
sure to strike that place this winter. Their
first contract ls to get out the material for
the large hotel which will be at once erected
and made ready for the reception of guests
this season.
The new pastor of the Ocean street Presby-
terrain church at Jacksonville. is the Rev. Wal
ter Condit, now pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Southampton, Long Island
n. Y, church with a congregation
of about 400 Mr.. Condit desires, however,
to remove from the rigors of Northern win
tiers, and therefore accepts the invitation
from Jacksonville.
One Of the largest crowds ever in Gaines
vile assembled Saturday to hear Maj Rus
sell and w. w. Hicks at the local optic
meeting, which commenced at Oak Hall
Park, but was interrupted by a heavy
shower Then the crowd met afterward in
the court house. The ladies prepared din
ner i'll the grove but it was somewhat in
jured by the shower.
At Fernandina Capt. Williams, of the
steamship State of Texas, reports sighting
the derelict bark Akbar off Hatteras, di-
rectly in the path of coastwise steamers. He
set fire to the wreck fore and aft and left it
burning. This same wreck was reported a
few days since some 800 miles to the south
ward OF Hauteras, and has been floating
around several months.
Saturday child got on the trestIe of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railway
near where the road crosses River street at
Palatka. The fast mail train came thun-
dering along, and the people who saw the
situation Of the child were almost paralyzed
with the prospect of its horrible death The
engineer, seeing the child, put on the brakes
and stopped the train. the point of the cow
catcher being only foot and a half from
the child
G. w Gates has some fine specimens of
alligators which he expects to have ON exhi-
bition at the Sub-Tropical this winter if the
consent of Col Forbes can be obtained
There are four of these saurians, and the
smallest of the number is large enough to
attract attention. The king of the lot is 13
feet long, and its age is estimated at $50
years The next is II feet in length and is
all time. Tho other ones are and feet in
length respectively
The Farmers Convention of Suwannee
county, met in the court house at Live Oak,
Saturday, and organized by electing Hon
Robert +. Rogers, President, and B. r. UNI
stead, Secretary The attendance was
large and enthusiastic and several matters
of vital Importance to the farming interests
were discussed. Hon. Robert F. Rogers
was elected a delegate to the Farmers AL
lance to be held in Mariana, Oct. t. The
local clubs of the county will elect delegates
to the State convention of farmers to be
held in Gainesville, Oct. II.
Key West Equator: Our dispatches from
Havana report that "Quiebra Hacha," well
known in this city, and who left here re-
Gently in charge of the expedition to Cuba,
was killed by the government troops while
seeking a spring for water. Quiebra Hacha,
though Spaniard, had for many years adj
vocated and fought for the Cuban cause,
and his death is much regretted by the
Cubans. Many of our citizens will remem-
Der him as the large Spaniard who was con-
nected with the barroom in the stone build
ing belonging to-Willie Monsalvatge
The body found in the st. Johns river
near Jacksonville day or two ago proves
to be that of John Mahon, a laborer. He
had been employed on Shell Island by A.
McCallum. lie lett the island last Sunday
in a small boat for Mayport against the adj
vice of those who thought his trip would
be very risky one, in the face of the bad
weather and unfavorable wind and tide
prevailing at the time. Nothing more was
heard of him until his body was found in
the water as narrated in these columns
recently. 1t is supposed that his boat
was swamped, and being unable to swim,
he drowned.
Several residents of Decatur county, Ga. ,
in erder to take adva ntage Of the dryness of
Gadsden county, are making an effort to
establish "A barroom in Decatur county,
about three miles north of Concord, and the
probabilities are that they will succeed
The local option law in Georgia requires
the whisky seller to obtain permit from at
least two-thirds of all the freeholders with
in radius of three miles around the place
of business, and as several negroes are free
holders in the section referred to, and de-
sire the sale of whisky, it appears to be an
easy matter to obtain the required number
of names.
The total forest area of the United States,
according to the chief of the forestry divis-
ion, is 4S0,910,000, and of this 10000, 900
acres are in Florida. But one State, Mime
sofa, has greater forest growth; but three,
Arkansas, California and Oregon are esti-
mated to have the same acreage. The pro-
portion of forest TO total area in Florida is
5G6 per cent, and the forest area held in
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